NORMAL MORNING MEETING THIS WEEK
Meeting This Week - we are at Cilantro 7am for 7.10am start
For full location details, please refer here.
The meeting will also be available on Zoom - details here
Edition 199
Monday, 27th January 2025
Message from our President - Tim's Tattles .
We enjoyed our first meeting of the year at Aila restaurant at 286 Highett Rd Highett run by Charles. They were very welcoming and the breakfast good by all accounts. This certainly is a good alternative option for breakfast in the future.
Next week we are back to our home at Cilantro for breakfast at the usual time.
WE start a new year and I hope you have had a good break and have come back refreshed for a new year to achieve great Rotary projects.
Yours in Rotary ‘The Magic of Rotary’
President Tim Lynch
Roster for the next 2 weeks
Note Market start time is 6.15am
Click on See all Rosters at right for future weeks. Members click here to see your own roster.
Meetings
Meeting January 29th, 2025
Chairperson Lucas, Margaret
Cashier Soster, Karin
Cashier Langridge, Samantha
Regalia Kempton, Alan
Meeting February 5th, 2025
Chairperson Carruthers, Kellie
Cashier / Regalia Ferguson, Paul
Cashier/regalia Burrows, Chris
Regalia Grant, James
Market February 2nd, 2025
Market leader Ferguson, Paul
Assistant Stone, Jennifer
Assistant - Carruthers, Kellie
Assistant - Oakley, Kirsten
Market February 9th, 2025
Market leader Ballantine, Ian
Assistant - Parker, Helen
Assistant - Burrows, Chris
This week's speaker / event
Coming Speakers:
This week's meeting will be Club Forum in which President Tim and Committee Chairs will outline plans for the second half of the Rotary year.
Please check the upcoming events on the Club website here
REGISTRATION FOR MEETINGS All meetings will now utilise the Registration facility. asking members to register their attendance, or non-attendance, at Club meetings. Note that it is equally important that guests are registered as well.
Members can either register as soon as the event appears in the calendar or respond to the invitation(s) via email to members in the week prior to the meeting. This email will contain a direct link to the event registration page. Here, we ask that you either accept or decline the invitation. You will also have the opportunity to add any guests. Once registered for the event, you will no longer receive an email for that event.
If you choose not to register either your intention to attend or not, it will be assumed you are not attending.
A reminder that instructions for Registration are here.
Ian Ballantine
Members are reminded of our Club's policy regarding the payment of meals for prospective new members. Please refer here.
Please forward any events you want promoted to the Editor.
Brother Thomas Oliver Pickett AM, Co-founder, Wheelchairs For Kids, has been made 2025 Senior Australian of the Year.
Brother Thomas Oliver Pickett AM co-founded Wheelchairs For Kids in 1996 to provide adjustable wheelchairs and occupational therapy expertise for children in developing countries, free of charge. Since then, more than 60,000 custom-built wheelchairs have been gifted to children in over 80 countries.
Rotary, and particularly our own Club, support Wheelchairs for Kids. Refer recent meeting here.
We had a total of 26 members and guests register for our first meeting for 2025. The venue was Aila Cafe in Highett. Amongst attendees were members John and Dee Mason, proudly showing off John's new set of "wheels".
The atmosphere was great with everyone enjoying the opportunity of catching up after our "holiday" break.
Member Larry Green conducted a quiz which was a lot of fun, if not a little chaotic! Well done Larry.
We had three guests attend, Bert d'Unienville, Jules Gaddie and Margaret Toyas.
About 30 members and partners attended a great evening dinner to celebrate the holiday season on Sunday evening, December 15, 2024.
The venue was the Olympic Room at the Sandringham Yacht Club.
The meal was excellent, as was the venue. Most came a little earlier to enjoy some pre dinner fellowship in the member's lounge area with it's magnificent outlook over the Club and Port Philip Bay.
The staff at SYC couldn't have been more efficient or pleasant.
The event was organised by Linda O'Brien who also prepared the table decorations.
The evening was such a success, I'm sure we'll be choosing this venue once again.
Today's club meeting was our last in 2024 and also our festive end of year meeting to celebrate holidays, Christmas, Hanukkah or whatever anyone desired.
President Tim presided over the meeting, whilst Charles R zoomed in on Zoom.
The morning's events commenced with a True or False quiz game presented by our own Quiz Master - Larry Green. We found not too many of us were very knowledgeable, with lots of questions finding us scratching our heads. We then moved to an activity less challenging for everyone - with a fun game of "Pass the Parcel to the Left or Right" following a story of Father Christmas who mislaid his special bag for delivering presents to all the good children of the world. The last person holding the box on each table was the lucky winner of a supply of delicious shortbreads made by our newly crowned President Elect Grant Perry.
Rotary Club Bentleigh Moorabbin Central joins with Glen Eira Council and Glen Eira Sports and Aquatic Centre to recognize international day for people with disabilities.
On Wednesday 4th December, club members Peter and Linda O’Brien, Margaret Lucas, Gary Ramage, Dr. Helen Parker, Sue Loeliger, Bert D’Unienville and friend of Rotary Ian Cooper celebrated this day by joining with council and GESAC to provide the catering mainly through cooking the bar b que and serving the upwards of 300 people in attendance.
Our partnership with council is valued and we appreciated the opportunity to join in at this important event and show our support to all facets of our community.
This club will look forward to continuing our involvement each year.
Barry Oliver was our chairperson for today's club meeting at Cilantro. Margaret Lucas performed invocation and the toast to Rotary and Australia. Guests included Bert d'Unienville, Gary Ramage, and our guest speaker, Bryce Alman.
Some years ago Rotary International declared their strong and commendable stance on Diversity Equity and Inclusion and expects all members to be familiar with this code of conduct and abide by it.
To quote:
Rotary core values: fellowship, integrity, diversity, service, and leadership This code of conduct reflects our core values and explains the responsibility that comes with being a Rotarian and Rotaractor, which includes members from nearly every country in the world, speaking over 100 different languages. We are committed to upholding and evolving this code as our organization grows. Like our core values, we expect Rotarians and Rotaractors to exemplify this code of conduct as they interact with one another, Rotary program participants, Alumni, project partners, and members of the community. Specifically, the code of conduct applies at all club, district, zone, and Rotary International meetings, trainings, events, and anywhere else a member represents Rotary and on My Rotary and social media. Expectations All club members and other participants including Rotary program participants, Alumni, project partners, and representatives of Rotary are expected to comply with this code of conduct, be considerate and contribute to a collaborative, positive, and healthy environment in which all are respected and valued.
The entire document can be accessed here. Note this link will download/open a pdf document to your computer.
This article is intended to help members register themselves and/or a guest to a Club event. Note, your can also register your intention NOT to attend.
If an event is inviting members to register there will be a button with the word: "Members" below "Online Registration". refer image at left.
Note that you need to be already logged in as a member. If you are not a member, this page will not be of any help. It may still be possible to register for an event as a non member if the event is open to the public.
From the Calendar page here you can subscribe to the Club's event calendar.
This will result in the Club's calendar being added to your existing calendar subscriptions, thus ensuring that as an event is added (or modified) to the Club's calendar, it will appear on your phone, tablet etc. Calendars supported are Outlook, Google and Apple.
Take the link, Subscribe to Calendar, from the Calendar Page.
Team members: Neville Kruss, Helen Nodrum. Bert d’Unienville, Andrew and Vino from Moorabbin. Other helpers and visitors: Aki and Rakeash from Holland Foundation. Sue Loeliger, Margaret Lucas,
Waiting in queue: 0. Night parkers : 0 Pedestrian count 946 Market Report: Fairly quiet day being Australia Day. Cloudy. No overnight cars. Andrew and Vino were here from Moorabbin. Ali and Ramesh came from Holland Foundation.
Leader, Neville Kruss
Note from the Editor re Images and Events
A point regarding the submission of images for the Bulletin and Website: Members are reminded that images have to meet a minimum size requirement, as has been specified for some time in the section at the bottom of this Bulletin. 820 pixels is the minimum size required with larger being better as this allows for cropping. The submission of images via MMS is NOT preferred as they are too small and of inferior quality. Email or Whatsapp is far superior.
Would any member like to take responsibility for the updating of the Club's Event Calendar? I have created a page of instructions here so it is very easy to take over.
Thank you, Ian Ballantine
I remind members that you are responsible for the information contained in the Club's database. This includes, birthdays, phone numbers, addresses etc etc. Even your own photo. You maintain this via this link.
Additionally, member's birthdays and anniversaries will no longer be listed in the Club Bulletin. This is to protect the privacy of members. This information is still available to members here.
Ian Ballantine
A reminder to members to keep checking the calendar of upcoming events for evening and perhaps, one day, daytime events.
Thank you for being a subscriber to our Weekly Club Bulletin. I try to have it published each week by Tuesday morning.
If you would like to have something included please contact me at editor@rotarybmc.org.au and attach, as separate files, the words and any images (jpg files are fine, minimum width 820 pixels). Please DO NOT send information as pdf files.
Ian Ballantine, Editor.
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REGISTRATION FOR MEETINGS
Brother Thomas Oliver Pickett AM, Co-founder, Wheelchairs For Kids, has been made 2025 Senior Australian of the Year.
About 30 members and partners attended a great evening dinner to celebrate the holiday season on Sunday evening, December 15, 2024.
Today's club meeting was our last in 2024 and also our festive end of year meeting to celebrate holidays, Christmas, Hanukkah or whatever anyone desired. 
Rotary Club Bentleigh Moorabbin Central joins with Glen Eira Council and Glen Eira Sports and Aquatic Centre to recognize international day for people with disabilities.
